Elle, you are correct that spinning or other indoor cycling activities can be recorded or added in Strava in the normal manner (for example, with a Garmin device), and they will show up with the "Stationary Trainer" tag; but these activities automatically get classed as activity type "Workout". And there seems to be no way to change the activity type after the fact. If you change the "Activity Type" to, for example "Cycling" in the "Edit Activity" box, the activity type will revert back to "Workout" after you hit "Save & View Activity". So it would be nice if it was at least possible to change these activities to "Cycling".

Needs to be a feature. Stationary comes up as an option when I load a ride with my Garmin but when I spin I'm just getting a reading from the Keiser computer. That data is not recorded anywhere. I need to be able to add Spin as an activity - I'd like to track my spinning time and distance separately from my "real" cycling.

When I check my stats I don't want it to say I average 2 rides per week with zero miles, which is what it does when I make a manual entry and then edit it to say I was on a stationary trainer. I want my ride stats to just be my ride stats and not lump spin sessions in with them. So definitely Strava should have a Spinning category for Activity Type. After all they have a category for Elliptical and Stair Stepper, why not Spinning?

The only way I've been able to track a 90 minute workout on a spin bike (incl. heart rate) using the iPhone app is to change it when I get back to my laptop to, "workout." Then it is listed as a "workout" not cycling. the iPhone app should have a simple indoor spinning as activity that doesn't require GPS. With the amount of spin classes, seems like a no brainer, yes?

Spinning should definitely be a type of activity. What's more, it would be great if it would record your heart rate for the whole time. Even better if they teamed up with Flywheel or Peloton to include your power rankings.

"stationary trainer/ bike" is a checkbox option under the "ride" category but when I list all of my activities I'd like to be able to search for "spinning" the same way I'd like to be able to select for "rides" and "runs"

The issue - from my perspective - is that cycling and spinning are different activities and I'd like to be able to 'categorize' them differently and not just click 'stationary bike' under the cycling activity.

I realize that how Strava sees the 'workout' initially may be as a workout - depending on where the data is coming from - but having the ability to distinguish between cycling and spinning means (as previously stated) my cycling stats won't be distorted by my spinning stats.

I hope this clarifies why we all believe there's a need for a 'spinning' (indoor cycling, etc) activity.

The people have spoken: Time to add a "stationary trainer" / "spinning" as a legit category. The "ride category" should be used for cycling activity with a spatial component; the requested category is its own category with a different set of data categories.

It would be nice to be able to record HR like normal and then be able to manually enter time and distance. My current workaround is to record my HR through Wahoo's activity app, importing it into Strava, and then adding a manual workout activity in Strava for Time and distance under another activity. This results in two activities with the HR in one and the time and distance.